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4 l www N4 PETERS. PHOYOALITHOGRAPHER, WASH NGTcN D G @eine tutesgetraut @fitta C. F. BOSWORTH, CF MILFORD, CONNECTICUT. Letters PatentNo. 67,402, dated August 6, 1867. l

IMPROVED PLATE-LETER.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAYy CONCERN:

Be it known that 1,0. F. BoswonTH, of Milford, in the county of NewHaven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new improvement in`Plate-Lifter; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with thc accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure l, a side View, and in Figure 2 an end view, cutting the handleon line x x.

This invention is designed for lifting hot articles, such as plates,pans, dac., used in cooking, and called a plate-lifter; and it consistsin the arrangement of a pair of jaws or hooks attached to a handle so asto turn freely thereon, and each jaw provided with a lever in suchrelative position to the handle that either or both jaws may be openedor closed by the pressure of the hand holding the lifter.

To enable others to construct and use my improvement, I will proceed todescribe the saine as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is the one jaw or hook, and B the other, the lower ends of which areturned inward, as denoted at a and b in fig. 2, and their upperendsattached to a handle, C, so that the jaws may be opened orclosed atpleasure; and from the upper end of each jaw a bar, D, extends back overthe handle, so as to come within the grasp of the hand which holds thelifter;v and when so grasped in the hand the two levers D, being pressedtogether,

close the jaws; or, hy loosening the grasp, either one or both of thejaws may be opened by the thumb of the same hand which grasps thehandle.

Its operation is as follows: The plate or dish to be lifted isrepresented in blue, fig. 2. The lifter is placed over the plate, andthe jaws opened, by pressing the thumb between the two levers D, intothe position denoted in red, fig. 2. Then release the levers from theopening pressure of the thumb, and closing the hand will force the twolevers D together, and turn the jaws under the plate, and firmly holdthem there, as seen in iig. 2, so that the plate may be lifted and setto any desired position; and when so set thejaws may be opened, asbefore described, and removed from the plate. Thus the lifter may beused for numerous purposes for whic other lifters arc not adapted,inasmuch as this lifter may be removed from the thing lifted in whateverposition it may be placed.

, I am aware that instruments for lifting plates constructed with one ortwo swinging bars upon a handle have before been used. I do not,therefore, broadly claim an instrument provided with jaws for liftingplates or similar articles; but what 'I do claim as new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Jlhe combination of the two jaws .A and B with their respective leversD, arranged upon a handle, C, so

as to operate in the manner herein described.

` C. F. BOSWORTH.

Witnesses:

RICHARDl MARSHELL, FRANK B. WHEELER,

